American Graffiti Could Have Cost Harrison Ford His Star Wars Role Universal Pictures By Devin Meenan/July 18, 2022 9:00 am EST Whether he likes it or not, Harrison Ford will always be most remembered for his collaborations with George Lucas. Whether as a director on “Star Wars,” or producer on the “Indiana Jones” trilogy, Lucas created the roles that made Ford into the movie star of the 1980s and ’90s....
Authenticity Was Key When It Came To The Horror Of Nanny Prime Video By Erin Brady/Nov. 17, 2022 5:40 pm EST While the more traditional horror aspects of Nikyatu Jusu’s indie horror hit “Nanny” is perhaps too spoilery to discuss right this moment, there are certainly real-life horrors that the film showcases. Seriously, some of the human interactions seen throughout the Prime Video release are more squirm-inducing and uncomfortable than any creature or jump scare....
Brendan Fraser Would Love To Make A Fourth Mummy Movie, Knows Why Tom Cruise’s Reboot Failed Universal Pictures By Sandy Schaefer/Oct. 12, 2022 1:49 pm EST Universal Pictures’ infamous Dark Universe was not an inherently bad idea. The studio had enjoyed great success crossing over its classic monster movie series going back to the 1940s, at one point even pairing them with comedy duo Abbott and Costello for a run of films....
Christian Bale Would Have Been Fine Playing Batman For The Rest Of His Career New Regency By Jeremy Smith/Oct. 6, 2022 4:34 pm EST Christian Bale is a great actor who, if his exceedingly rare interviews are to be believed, hates acting. Loathes it. Kinda wishes he’d never done it in the first place. But it’s a living, and he’s awfully good at it, so he keeps snagging multi-million paydays because it beats hosing down dumpsters out back of an East St....
Dwayne Johnson’s Acting Career Could Have Included A Stint As Johnny Bravo Cartoon Network By Matt Rainis/Oct. 31, 2022 5:09 pm EST In 2002, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson was finishing up his time with the newly renamed World Wrestling Entertainment. After electrifying audiences over the course of his short but extremely memorable career in the ring, Johnson was already dipping his toes into the film industry, with appearances in “The Mummy Returns” and “The Scorpion King....
Elizabeth Banks’ Cocaine Bear Has A Scene That’s ‘Mini Fast & Furious But One Of The Cars Is A Bear’ Universal Pictures By Valerie Ettenhofer/Nov. 30, 2022 1:45 pm EST This post contains spoilers for a scene from the upcoming film “Cocaine Bear.” Like a drug-addled black bear, the first preview of Elizabeth Banks’ “Cocaine Bear” has just been unleashed on the unsuspecting public, and the movie frankly looks like a wild ride....
Every Season Of Sons Of Anarchy Ranked Worst To Best FX Network By Jenn Adams/Oct. 18, 2022 12:27 pm EST On December 9th, 2014 after seven seasons on the road, FX’s “Sons of Anarchy” took its final ride. Show creator Kurt Sutter’s series about a biker gang from Northern California follows Jax Teller (Charlie Hunnam), the heir apparent to the titular motorcycle club, and his manipulative mother Gemma Teller Morrow (Katey Sagal), the club’s matriarch....
Francis Ford Coppola Used Magic To Make The Special Effects For Bram Stoker’s Dracula Columbia Pictures By Devin Meenan/Oct. 4, 2022 1:09 pm EST Francis Ford Coppola’s 1992 “Dracula” was promoted as a faithful adaptation of the 1897 novel, down to its full title “Bram Stoker’s Dracula.” Don’t think for a moment this means the movie is a stuffy stage reading, concerned only with literally adapting the text. No, Coppola’s rendition of Stoker is one of the most visually audacious films of its decade....
Sit down, you’re rockin’ the boat Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Things didn’t improve from there. Simply put, Brando and Sinatra were the complete opposites of one another as artists, and not in a complementary sense. To quote Kanfer again: The two men were diametrical opposites: Marlon required multiple takes; Frank detested repeating himself. Marlon repeatedly changed the dialogue. Frank, who had committed hundreds of lyrics to memory, rarely blew a line. Marlon tried to find the essence of Sky Masterson....
I was hitting him pretty hard Lionsgate “Monster’s Ball” is a sharp-edged, borderline cruel drama in which a corrections officer (Thornton) in charge of overseeing executions drives his kind-hearted son (Ledger), who’s inexplicably opted to follow his father’s footsteps, to suicide. Their already fractured relationship completely shatters when Ledger vomits while leading a condemned man to the electric chair. Having failed at his solemn duty, Thornton flies into a rage and assaults Ledger in the restroom....
An allegory for healing intergenerational trauma Shudder The plot of “Good Madam” focuses on how racial inequity fractures a family unit. “Good Madam” is not a jump-scare-fueled horror film. There’s no loud score or third-act twist. Prepare for a crescendo-like pace from a film that asks you to turn off your phone, settle in, and listen carefully. In “Good Madam,” characters conceal more than they reveal, adding intrigue to each discussion....
Cavill would combine the best Bonds Sony Pictures Back when Martin Campbell and Eon Productions were casting their Bond for “Casino Royale,” Henry Cavill saw his career get a big boost when news broke of his screen test for the role. According to a 2019 Men’s Health interview with Cavill, the test required him to perform a scene from one of Sean Connery’s Bond movies, with the actor saying he “probably could have prepared better....
How Halloween Kill’s ‘Devastation’ Led To Halloween Ends’ Love Story Peacock By Debopriyaa Dutta/Oct. 17, 2022 11:34 am EST This post contains spoilers for “Halloween Ends.” David Gordon Green has rounded up his “Halloween” reboot with the recently released “Halloween Ends,” which puts a stopper on the Michael Myers saga for good (for now). After surviving Michael multiple times and undergoing immense trauma for 40-odd years, Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) engages in a final confrontation with the masked killer in Green’s final film in the trilogy....
Fedoras or bust New Line Cinema Pre-production on any project involves numerous changes, especially if you’re trying to narrow down a character’s look. With that said, creating a horror movie character as memorable as Freddy Krueger was not without its creative challenges. As Robert Englund would share with Yahoo! Entertainment, the producers of “A Nightmare on Elm Street” tried to throw out a variety of ideas for Krueger’s hat. Englund pushed back against the producers, trying to explain to them that the fedora was the right call for the character, but they produced a flurry of hats — “paperboy hats, baseball hats,” Englund explained....
Marvel Studios By Erin Brady/Oct. 7, 2022 1:30 pm EST There’s a lot that you can say about the acting throughout the Marvel Cinematic Universe. While some actors in their respective projects do pull off some great acting performances (Robert Downey Jr. in “Avengers: Endgame” comes to mind), there are also many instances where the characters on screen simply sound like they are reciting lines rather than actually acting. Perhaps this is because of how the franchise feels built on a conveyor belt, the majority of them feeling so similar to each other that it’s hard to distinguish them apart....
John Carpenter Was A Constant Presence While Simon Pegg And Edgar Wright Wrote Shaun Of The Dead Rogue Pictures By Matt Rainis/Oct. 6, 2022 2:13 pm EST Not all movies can make billions at the box office. In fact, at this point in history, unless your movie has some sort of existing IP attached to it, it’s tough to make much money at all. But financial success is by no means the best way of assessing a movie’s quality....
Kitty Genovese Keeps On Popping Up In Film And Television – But Everyone Gets The Story Wrong Filmrise By BJ Colangelo/Sept. 16, 2022 3:31 pm EST Now that the “Scream” series is under the stewardship of Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, we’re heading into a new era of Ghostface, with the sixth movie leaving Woodsboro and Sidney Prescott behind, and slashing toward the Big Apple as the Carpenter sisters (Melissa Barrera, Jenna Ortega) trying their hardest to start a new life after surviving the previous film....
Lawrence Of Arabia’s Camels Caused No Shortage Of Pain For Peter O’Toole Columbia Pictures By Mike Shutt/Oct. 7, 2022 12:56 pm EST Even though I have watched “Lawrence of Arabia” quite a few times in my life, I still cannot fathom how something this gigantic in scale and scope was ever committed to film. It’s been 60 years since its first premiered, and no movie has ever felt bigger. But it isn’t just the scale that boggles the mind....
Los Espookys Co-Creator Julio Torres’ Comedy Series Little Films Is Coming To HBO HBO By Shae Sennett/Dec. 20, 2022 7:18 pm EST Fans of “Los Espookys” might not have a third season to look forward to, but they will be getting more work from the mind of co-creator and star Julio Torres very soon. Torres co-wrote the series with Fred Armisen and Ana Fabrega and co-starred as Andrés, the black sheep of his family of wealthy chocolatiers....
Man Of Steel 2 And A Crisis On Infinite Earths Plan Were In Development Before New DC Management Came In Warner Bros By Eric Vespe/Dec. 9, 2022 7:05 pm EST In the wake of James Gunn and Peter Safran being appointed as the creative leads for Warner Bros’s DC content we’re getting little glimpses behind the curtain of what the hell has actually been going on over at the studio, which has notoriously fractured their superhero goldmine into a million disparate pieces that are sometimes connected, sometimes not, and oftentimes left unfinished....
